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ARRANGEMENTS 


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THE INAUGURATION 


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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 


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FOURTH OF MARCH, 1865. 


WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT P R I N 'I' I N(^ OFFICE, 

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The doors of the Senate Chamber will be opened at 11 o’clock a. m. for the 
admission of Senators, and others who, by the arrangement of the committee, 
are entitled to admission, as follows: 

Ex-Presidents and Vice-Presidents. 

The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. 

The Diplomatic Corps, Heads of Departments, Ex-Members of either branch 
of Congress, and Members of Congress elect. 

Officers of the Army and Navy, who, by name, have received the thanks of 
Congress. 

Governors of States and Territories of the Union, and Ex-Governors of 
States; Assistant Secretaries of Departments, and the Assistant Postmasters 
General; the Assistant Attorney General, and the Judge Advocate General; 
the Comptrollers, Auditors, and Register of the Treasury; the Solicitors of 
the several Departments; Treasurer; Commissioners; Judges of the Federal 
Courts, and of the Supreme Courts of the several States; the Mayors of Wash¬ 
ington and Georgetown; and the Reporters in the Senate. 

All of whom will be admitted at the east door of the north wing of the 
Capitol. 

The families of the Diplomatic Corps will enter at the east door of the north 
wing of the Capitol, and be conducted to the diplomatic gallery. The ladies 
of the families of the other persons admitted, as above, to the floor of the Sen¬ 
ate, will enter at the same door, and be conducted to the gallery on the south 
side of the chamber, on the right and left of the diplomatic gallery. 

A seat will be placed in front of the Secretary’s table for the Prrsident of 
the United States, President elect, and, on his left, for the Committee of Ar¬ 
rangements. 

Ex-Presidents and Vice-Presidents, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices 
of the Supreme Court, will have seats on the right of the Chair. 


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The Diplomatic Corps will occupy seats on the right of the Chair, next to the 
Supreme Court. Heads of Departments will occupy seats on the left of the 
Chair. 

Officers of the Army and Navy Avho, by name, have received the thanks of 
Congress; Governors of States and Territories of the Union ; Ex-Governors of 
States; Assistant Secretaries of Departments; the Assistant Postmasters Gen¬ 
eral ; the Assistant Attorney General, and the Judge Advocate General; Comp¬ 
trollers, Auditors, and Register of the Treasury; Solicitors of the several De¬ 
partments ; Commissioners; Treasurer ; Judges, and the Mayors of Washington 
and Georgetown, will occupy seats on the right and left of the main entrance. 

Members of Congress, and members elect, will enter the Senate Chamber by 
th.. main entrance, and will occupy seats on the left of the Chair. 

The other galleries will be reserved for ladies, who will enter the Capitol 
trom the terrace, by the principal western door of the central building, and be 
conducted to the gallery of the Senate. 

The Rotundo shall be closed, and the passages leading thereto kept clear. 

The other doors and entrances to the Capitol, except those to be open under 
this arrangement, will be kept closed. 

At 11 o’clock the President, President elect, accompanied by two mem¬ 
bers of the Committee of Arrangements, will proceed in a carriage to the east 
door of the north wing of the Capitol, and entering there, Avill proceed to the 
President’s room. 

The Vice-President elect will be accompanied to the Capitol by a mem¬ 
ber of the Committee of Arrangements, and conducted to the Vice-Presi¬ 
dent’s room, and afterwards into the Senate Chamber, where the oath of office 
will be administered to him by the Vice-President. 

The Diplomatic Corps and the Justices of the Supreme Court will enter the 
Senate Chamber a few minutes before the President elect. 

The Senate will assemble at twelve o’clock. 

The Senate being ready for his reception, the President, President 
elect, will be introduced by the Committee of Arrangements to the seat pre¬ 
pared for him in the Senate Chamber. 

Those assembled in the Senate Chamber will then proceed to the platform 
on the central portico of the Capitol, in the following order: 

The Marshal of the District of Columbia. 

Ex-Presidents and Ex-Vice-Presidents. 






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The Supreme Court of the United States. 

The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. 

The Committee of Arrangements. 

The President of the United States, the President elect. 

The Vice-President and the Secretary of the Senate. 

The Members of the Senate. 

The Diplomatic Corps. 

Heads of Departments ; Governors of States and Territories; the Mayors of 
Washington and Georgetown, and other persons who have been admitted to 
the floor of the Senate Chamber. 

On reaching the portico, the President, President elect, will take the 
seat provided for him on the front of the platform. 

The Committee of Arrangements will occupy a position in the rear of the 
President, President elect. 

Next in the rear of these, Ex-Presidents and Ex-Vice-Presidents, and the 
Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, will occupy the 
seats on the left, and the Vice-President, Secretary, and ■ Members of the 
Senate, those on the right. 

The Diplomatic Corps will occupy the seats next in the rear of the Supreme 
Court; Heads of Departments, Governors and Ex-Governors of States, Ex-Mem¬ 
bers of the Senate, Members, Ex-Members, and Members elect of the House of 
Representatives, in the rear of the Members of the Senate. 

Such other persons as are included in the preceding arrangements will occupy 
the steps and the residue of the portico. 

All being in readiness, the oath of office will be administered to the Presi¬ 
dent ELECT by the Chief Justice. 

On the conclusion of the President’s address, the Members of the Senate, 
preceded by the Vice-President, Secretary, and Sergeant-at-Arms, will return 
to the Senate Chamber; and the President, accompanied by the Committee 
of Arrangements, will proceed to the President’s House. 

The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, the Marshal of the District, and the 
Commissioner of Public Buildings, are charged with the execution of these 
arrangements, and, aided by the Police of the Capitol, with such a detachment 
of military force as may be detailed by the Secretary of War, will preserve 
order. 






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All horses and carriages, except those used in conveying persons to the east 
door of the north wing of the Capitol, will he excluded from the Capitol 
square. 

Should the weather prove unfavorable the ceremony of the Inauguration will 
take place in the Senate Chamber. 

LA FAYETTE S. FOSTER, 

J. R. DOOLITTLE, 

J. B. HENDERSON, 

Committee of Arrangements. 














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